Negativity can affect every area of your life. Identify negative energy and thought patterns are an important part of challenging yourself and those around you to a more realistic viewpoint. It can improve your relationships and your overall outlook on life. Keep these things in mind when you find yourself surrounded by negative energy and use them to help you move out of the negative space.
- Find the source of the negative energy – Question your thoughts and the thoughts influencing you. Before you can take action to decrease the negativity that surrounds you, you must question the negative energy to find the source of it. Once you do that, you can begin to remove yourself from the emotion surrounding you. Simply trying to eliminate negative energy doesn’t do much for the reason its present in the first place. If you don’t get to the heart of the matter it is likely to keep recurring, so keep questioning until you do.
- Focus on solutions – The next logical step in questioning and understanding the negative energy around you is to focus on how to eradicate it, and prevent it in the future. Why focus on the solution? The answer is simple: you end up receiving more of what you focus on. With that basic principle in mind, it makes sense to focus on the solution rather than the negative energy and problems associated with it.
- Surround yourself with positive people – Every day we come in contact with a variety of different people. Some of these people make us happier, and others may have the opposite effect. Who we allow to influence us is up to us and choosing to spend more time with positive people will help prevent a buildup of negative energy around us.
- Except possibility and release expectation – Happy people are not happy because bad things don’t happen to them, they are happy because they know how to handle the bad things better. Someone who is happy has similar challenges to those that are not happy. The difference is that they release expectation of what might happen, and focus to create the best possible situation – no matter whether it ends up good or bad. Knowing that life could deal you some good cards and some bad ones, and releasing expectations makes it easier to work through situations because you are ready to accept whatever happens. The key is not to dwell in situations where negative energy surrounds you and take action right away to move back into a positive space.
- Show yourself compassion – No matter how bad things get, remember that the negative energy around you isn’t always about you. While you are responsible for the energy you create, the burden of negative energy of others shouldn’t be carried on your shoulders. See the importance of this distinction, because if you can separate yourself from the negative energy of others, you can focus on getting to the heart of the matter logically, without allowing the emotion to latch onto you.
- Focus – Sometimes when negative energy is coming at us from all directions, we have a hard time knowing what to do. It is so intense that it can paralyze us into inaction. Instead of tackling the big ball of negativity all at once, try doing one small thing. Just one. Doing one thing will crack open a space in the negative energy for the positive to begin to shine. That little bit of positive will begin to build and your motivation to do more “Things” will propel you to eliminating the harmful energy.
- Accept it or let it go – With everything in our lives, whether positive or negative, we have two choices: to accept it or let it go. Accepting it means accepting the negative source to the point where you can begin to move through it. It doesn’t mean you are committed to allowing the negative energy to remain in and influential life. Accepting it means handling the challenge and creating change. When negative energy surround you, it’s obvious that change is needed. That doesn’t mean change will immediately occur or solve the problem. If the negativity persists you may see that it has become a toxic cycle that no longer serves you, and have to come to terms with letting it go. in the end, you have to do what is right for you and your mental well-being and overall happiness. It is an easy to let go of things that used to matter. When they are serving your highest good anymore and possibly even harming you, what choice do you have?
Become aware of the messages you are receiving throughout the day. Find the source of negative messages and begin to eliminate them from your daily routine. Learn to recognize the type of unhealthy thinking you are most likely to encounter. Start having an inner dialogue about how to handle these situations now, before you are in the moment. Knowing how you will handle the situation before it occurs, will help you when the time comes. ~ By Power of Positivity